A unit within the Department of Health and Human Services, Aging and Disability Services that provides services and support to children and adults with developmental disabilities ages 3 years through adulthood. CSN provides community education through quarterly newsletters, educational seminars and resource fairs.

Fact sheets have been developed for mild to moderate manifestations of a number of special needs conditions. For most conditions there are separate fact sheets for Dental Professionals, Medical Professionals, and Parents and Caregivers. A new General Guidance fact sheet is included and is available in Spanish.

A not-for-profit organization of nonpublic special education facilities approved by the Maryland State Department of Education. These facilities, throughout Maryland, promote quality services for children and youth with disabilities.

Available to deaf and hard of hearing Maryland children from birth to age 21. Serving children across a broad spectrum of intellectual and physical abilities, including those with mild to severe additional disabilities and is FREE to Maryland residents.

Provides assistive technology services available to every Maryland resident with a disability. Free services include equipment demonstrations, equipment loans, a device-exchange program, training, and public awareness initiatives. We manage two low-interest financing programs for the purchase of assistive technology and provide access to cooperative buying discounts on AT purchases.

Through the Loan Bank, families of infants and toddlers with confirmed hearing loss who do not have insurance coverage for hearing aids, or are experiencing delays in obtaining or purchasing aids, can obtain aids on a temporary basis.

Distributes free amplified phones, ring signalers, TTYs and other assistive devices to qualified applicants who have difficulty using the telephone. To qualify, applicants must be receiving one or more state or federal benefits or show that they have a limited income. In addition, applicants must have a disability that makes it difficult for them to access a standard telephone.

Provides trained Service Dogs or Hearing Dogs to people who are physically challenged, deaf or hard-of-hearing, including on-going support services and training. And to increase the quality of life for people living in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan community through the use of hearing dogs, service dogs and therapy dogs.

Helps families, health care providers and education professionals understand childhood hearing loss and the importance of early diagnosis and intervention. Through advocacy, education, research and financial aid, AG Bell helps to ensure that every child and adult with hearing loss has the opportunity to listen, talk and thrive in mainstream society.

Provides speech, language, and hearing services for individuals with communication disorders. Individuals can be of any age. The clinic includes a Language-Learning Early-Advantage Program (LEAP), which offers communication enrichment for children between the ages of three and five and especially welcomes children with speech and/or language delays only or children learning English as a second language.

Provides individual or group speech and language sessions in our office as well as to provide contractual services to our surrounding school systems and health care facilities. Our clinic is located in the heart of Westminster, MD.

Provides quality pediatric audiology services for uninsured and underinsured children in Frederick County and children served by the Infants and Toddlers Program, Head Start, and the Frederick County Public School's Special Education Program.

Helping people improve the quality of their lives in Annapolis, Easton, Ocean Pines, Salisbury, Severna Park, Stevensville, and surrounding areas throughout Maryland by diagnosing your hearing problem with a hearing test, so we're able to provide you with the best solution. If a hearing aid is needed, we will evaluate your hearing loss and lifestyle so we can provide you with the best hearing technology to meet your needs. Locations in Severna Park, Annapolis, Easton, Salisbury, Ocean Pines, Stevensville.

Provides professional, expert, and state of the art hearing and vestibular services and education in a trusting and caring environment in order to ensure the best possible quality of life for our patients. Locations in LaVale and Oakland Maryland.

We diagnose your hearing problem with hearing testing so we are able to provide you with the best hearing solution. If a hearing aid is needed, we will evaluate your hearing loss and lifestyle so we can provide you with the best hearing technology to suit your needs. Locations in Lutherville, Bel Air, Baltimore and surrounding areas.

A private, non-profit organization, that provides hearing and speech services, offers an information resource center, operates a non-public school, and advocates for people of all ages with communication disorders/disabilities.

Provides complete Hearing Health Care Services for the consumer as well as instrumentation and hearing aid products for the professional. As part of a comprehensive program we provide hearing aid fitting services. Locations in Easton and the Baltimore-metro area.

A social networking site that can increase your/ your child's circle of friends. Our objective is to help you, and your family, connect with other families who have had similar experiences in managing hearing loss and finding treatment options.

offers a variety of services, including employment support, residential support, information and referral and communication resources, for Eastern Shore residents with hearing loss. Above all DILA strives to promote active, independent living among the people we serve.

National Speech is a family-oriented practice specializing in speech, language and learning disorders. Most speech and learning disorders such as dyslexia and auditory processing can be identified early on. At National Speech, we offer programs to help children learn to speak and understand what they see, hear and read from an early age.

At Advanced Hearing centers, we have helped tens of thousands hear better. Our professionals possess the highest creditentials and are amoung the area's most experienced practitioners of hearing and diagnostic services.

A non-profit cross-disability organization led by people with disabilities that provides leadership in facilitating systems change to achieve community inclusion, civil rights and equal opportunities for people with disabilities. The Forum achieves this by connecting people with disabilities, other individuals, and organizations; providing them with the opportunity to network and engage in public forums to increase awareness among people with disabilities; and enhancing their participation in the policy setting and implementation process by providing a wide spectrum of information.

MarTar Swim School specializes in providing quality, enriching swimming education that gives equal access for everyone to learn at their own pace and abilities. We specialize in teaching individuals with special needs, including children and adults with autism, down syndrome, ADHD, PDD, cerebral palsy and visual or audio impairments, how to swim by employing a variety of techniques including visual aids and sign language. We are committed to providing excellent instruction and a safe, compassionate learning environment.

Learning that your child is deaf or hard of
hearing can be a traumatic experience. Parents
have many questions and concerns in coping
with their child’s needs and their own feelings.
You are not alone. We have been there.

a web-based link to information, resources, and services for children with hearing loss. At the heart of EHDI-PALS is a a national web-based directory of facilities that offer pediatric audiology services to young children who are younger than five years of age. The facilities included in this directory have licensed pediatric audiologists who provide these services.

a volunteer-run non-profit organization dedicated to providing fun, safe, communication-rich camps that promote the physical, spiritual, and social development of Deaf/hard of hearing children and children learning American Sign Language.

Hands & Voices is dedicated to supporting families with children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing without a bias around communication modes or methodology. We're a parent-driven, non-profit organization providing families with the resources, networks, and information they need to improve communication access and educational outcomes for their children.

Whether its protecting against preventable hearing loss through Listen Carefully, helping low-income Americans through Hear Now or giving new life to hearing aids through our recycling program, we use hearing as a vehicle to change lives in the U.S. and around the world.

The charitable objects and purposes of this Trust are the provision of financial aid including scholarships
to citizens of the United States possessions, who suffer deafness or hearing impairment; who will benefit
from medical, mechanical, specialized treatment or specialized education and who are unable to provide
the funds therefore themselves.

Our mission is to promote and provide equal access to communication and learning through described and captioned educational media.The ultimate goal of the DCMP is for accessible media to be an integral tool in the teaching and learning process for all stakeholders in the educational community, including students, educators and other school personnel, parents, service providers, businesses, and agencies.

TCS offers a full suite of innovative accessible services and solutions to ensure that employees with disabilities, students and individuals are able to perform the essential functions of their positions, have equal access to technology in the workplace and enjoy equal benefits and privileges of employment and the pursuit of their personal or professional goals.

We believe that individuals who are deaf-blind are valued members of society and are entitled to the same opportunities and choices as other members of their community. NFADB is the largest national nonprofit organization serving families of individuals who are deaf-blind.